Wow, that hurt.....

User Rating: 2.6 | Eragon X360
By da_odd | Review Date:
Ever since reading Eragon, i dreamed that a movie and game were going to made of it. (hey, if lame-ass Harry potter got them, why shoulden't Eragon?) Well, here comes Eragon the game. My dream came true, but it was made out of pure, solid awfulness. It is the worst game thus far to be released on the 360. Bland textures, horribley simple gameplay, and worst of all, bad story. The gameplay is almost pure button-mashing. Eragon does have some fancy combos, but the simple light and heavy attacks can get you through the majority of the game. The game does feature some block and parry moves, but the games AI is rarely challenging enough to use them. There are very few sequences in where you get to ride your dragon, Saphira, into combat. Strangely, this a very good thing. This is one of the lowest points of the game, thanks mostly to the awful camera. Saphira will take damage if she runs into walls and other obsicals, but the camera actually prevents you from avoiding them. It tries to shift to get a better veiw of the action, which more often than not, puts oncoming obsticals off-screen. What really makes the game horrible is the way it tries to tell the story.
Stupid, uninspired cutscenes barley give you enough info to tell you who the charicters are. All the game really tess you is to kill your enemy by any means nessisary. (which isn't fun in the first place) Overall, a very poorley made game that wouldent be out of place as a free toy in a cerial box.

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    By gimlifn | Review Date: Dec 20, 2006 | X360

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